Richard Bright’s Typical Vibe
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Richard Bright has 10 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1970s through the 1990s. 1 sits in the Top 1% of all titles we track — including The Godfather Part II.
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In the continuing saga of the Corleone crime family, a young Vito Corleone grows up in Sicily and in 1910s New York. In the 1950s, Michael Corleone attempts to expand the family business into Las Vegas, Hollywood and Cuba.
Dir. Francis Ford Coppola · With Al Pacino, Robert Duvall, Diane Keaton

A graduate student and obsessive runner in New York is drawn into a mysterious plot involving his brother, a member of the secretive Division.
Dir. John Schlesinger · With Dustin Hoffman, Laurence Olivier, Roy Scheider

A recently released ex-convict and his loyal wife go on the run after a heist goes wrong.
Dir. Sam Peckinpah · With Steve McQueen, Ali MacGraw, Ben Johnson

Upon receiving his draft notice and leaving his family ranch in Oklahoma, Claude heads to New York and befriends a tribe of long-haired hippies on his way to boot camp.
Dir. Miloš Forman · With John Savage, Treat Williams, Beverly D'Angelo

A cat burglar is forced to take a bickering, dysfunctional family hostage on Christmas Eve.
Dir. Ted Demme · With Denis Leary, Judy Davis, Kevin Spacey

A stark portrayal of life among a group of heroin addicts who hang out in Needle Park in New York City. Played against this setting is a low-key love story between Bobby, a young addict and small-time hustler, and Helen, a homeless girl who finds in her relationship with Bobby the stability she craves.
Dir. Jerry Schatzberg · With Al Pacino, Kitty Winn, Alan Vint

A tough Russian policeman is forced to partner up with a cocky Chicago police detective when he is sent to Chicago to apprehend a Georgian drug lord who killed his partner and fled the country.
Dir. Walter Hill · With Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jim Belushi, Peter Boyle

One minute Josh Baker is meeting the woman of his dreams. The next, he's watching her whisked away by a mysterious ambulance that never arrives at the local hospital. Doubted by the police, Josh is forced to carry on a one-man crusade that leads to a discovery more frightening than his worst fears.
Dir. Larry Cohen · With Eric Roberts, James Earl Jones, Megan Gallagher

New York City factory worker Eddie Marino is a solid citizen and regular guy, until the day a sadistic street gang brutally assaults his wife and murders his child. When a corrupt judge sets the thugs free, he goes berserk and vows revenge.
Dir. William Lustig · With Robert Forster, Fred Williamson, Richard Bright
God has had enough of the bad behavior and attitude of humankind, and has decided to start it all over. It is up to a struggling inventor and a bank teller, both with very amateur criminal minds, to save the world by falling in love.
Dir. John Herzfeld · With John Travolta, Olivia Newton-John, Charles Durning